ENLIGHT2018

Planning details for the 2018 ENLIGHT meeting and training day, hosted by UCL.

To-Do List

Chairs

• Email Manjit Dosanjh/Cai Grau about meeting dates to confirm: SJ. — ✓
• Ask Manchester/Christie what topics they would like to contribute: GR.
• Find out whether Ran Mackay would be willing to be an agent provocateur for one of the panel discussions: GR.
• Book Cruciform Building Lecture Theatre for all 4 days: GR.
• Identify Local Organising Committee: SJ, GR. — ✓
• Discuss site visit with UCLH/Bouygues: RA.
• Arrange discussion session topics and speakers: RA, GR.
• Find out if we can publish contributed papers in peer-reviewed journal special edition: SJ.

Local Organisers

• Find suitable location for formal dinner on Tuesday 26^th:
  • British Museum.
  • Thames riverboat.
  • Indian restaurant: Brick Lane, Tayyabs.
• Accommodation for delegates.
• Travel for delegates.
• Find out what local organisation necessary for previous conferences.

Provisional Dates: Monday 25^th–Thursday 28^th June 2018

Training Day

Monday 25^th

ENLIGHT Meeting

Tuesday 26^th–Wednesday 27^th

EPTN Meeting

Thursday 28^th

UCLH PBT Site Visit

During ENLIGHT Meeting on Wednesday?

Local Organising Committee

Chairs

Richard Amos, Simon Jolly, Gary Royle.

Ricky Sharma to join.

Local Support

Postgrads, postdocs and secretarial support from Medical Physics.

Training Day

Clinical Proton Delivery: How to design a PBT centre

Monday 25^th June, 09.30–18.00

• Commercial vendors: Varian, Hitachi (30 mins + 15 mins each for questions → 90 mins).
• History of accelerators: Hywel Owen, Jose Alonso (60 mins inc questions).
• UCLH build including BIM modelling: Tahir Ahmed, Paulina Zakrzewska, Bouygues (45 mins?).
• Clinical beam delivery: Richard Amos (45 mins?).
• How to write a Treatment Planning System: Uwe Oelfke, Antje Knopfe (45 mins?).
• Monte Carlo simulations, including shielding, planning verification and pre-commissioning: Frank Verhagen, Joao Seco (45 mins?).
• Commissioning a PBT centre: Håkan Nyström (45 mins?).
• Heidelberg facility design: TBA (45 mins?)

7 hours of talks, 1 hour for lunch, 15 minutes for 2 coffee breaks?

ENLIGHT Meeting

Tuesday 26^th–Wednesday 27^th June, 09.00–18.00

Each session approx. 2 hours with a 1 hour discussion session scheduled for before lunch.

Radiobiology

Organiser: GR.

• Chair: Rikky Sharma — if Rikky chairs he can sill get someone from his group to speak.
• Klaus Trott
• Bleddyn Jones
• Kevin Prise
• Marco Durante

Other Particles

Organiser: SJ

• Chair: Stuart Green?
• IBA (carbon cyclotron)
• CNAO (Marco Pullia?)
• Heidelberg
• MedAustron
• Japan
• Radhe Mohan

Patient Selection

Organiser: RA

• Chair: Ed Smith
• Adrian Crellin
• Holland
• Karen Kirkby (MALHTUS)

Dosimetry

Organiser: SJ

• Chair: Gary Royle
• Hugo Palmans
• Simon Jolly
• NPL (Russell Thomas/GiuseppeSchettino/Ana Lourenco)
• Brunel
• PRaVDA (Phil Allport/Tony Price/not Nigel Allinson...)
• Liverpool LHCb VELO+Clatterbridge (Carsten Welsch/Jacinta Yap)
• STFC/RAL

Paediatrics

Organiser: RA

• Chair: Mark Gaze
• Beate Timmerman/Germany
• Ed Smith
• Yen-Ch'ing Chang
• Anita Mahajan
• Case studies
• Jonathan Farr
• Tsukuba/Japan

Imaging

Organiser: GR

• Chair: David Hawkes
• Jamie McClelland
• Tracy Underwood
• Stacey Holloway
• Hugo Bouchard
• Xiao Ming (MGH)
• Phil Evans

Discussion Sessions

• Gantries/no gantries.
• One more self-interested topic needed...
• Alternatively, have 1 discussion session and use the other for UCLH PBT site visit.

EPTN Meeting

Thursday 28^th June, 10.00–16.30